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Flat 10 • Nick Brewer

26 Sep 2013 / Comments Off / in Music/by

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Released September 15, 2013
Nick Brewer’s Flat 10 is an intense, 7 track EP, a collection of chilled-out rap with a message..

“‘Every word that Brewer says on this EP comes from his heart, and is said to make a change – whether it just be to one person or people at large, and that I have a lot of respect for.”

Test, Orange • Cherry Smyth

17 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Books/by

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112 pages • Pindrop Press • May 20, 2012 [PB]

Cherry Smyth’s third collection is proof positive of poetry’s ability to combine the toughness and beauty of language in concentrated form, to expand brief moments and explore their possibilities.

“Smyth’s language is sometimes fibrous and stringy, at other times silky smooth. Her work is by turns deeply personal, overtly political and socially aware, without being polemical or ‘worthy’..”